Hegau-Gymnasium Singen

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Hegau-Gymnasium Singen
Hegau-Gymnasium Singen
type of school high school
founding 1899
address

Alemannenstrasse 21

place Singing at the Hohentwiel
country Baden-Württemberg
Country Germany
Coordinates 47 ° 45 ′ 52 "  N , 8 ° 50 ′ 17"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 45 ′ 52 "  N , 8 ° 50 ′ 17"  E
carrier City of Singen am Hohentwiel
student about 1000
Teachers 85
management Kerstin Schuldt (since school year 2011/12)
Website Hegau high school

The Hegau-Gymnasium is a high school in Singen am Hohentwiel .

The name is derived from Hegau , a volcanic landscape in southern Germany. In addition to the Hegau-Gymnasium, the Friedrich-Wöhler-Gymnasium in Singen and the Gymnasium in Engen cover western Hegau.

The Hegau-Gymnasium offers working groups such as an orchestra, a pre-orchestra, a choir, a big band, a theater group and several sports groups. In 2005 the school big band came second in the state competition Jugend jazzt .

history

Art Nouveau decoration over the front door (year of construction: 1910)

As early as 1899, when Singen was granted town charter, the need to found a secondary school in addition to the elementary school was seen . A community school with 46 students in two courses was opened. Of these, 14 students who “have some basic knowledge of French” took the advanced course. School operations initially began in the converted home of the brewery owner Bilger on Bahnhofstrasse, until the first school building, today's Ekkehard secondary school, was completed in 1901. But soon the house was seen as too small for all students, so a new building was designed and inaugurated on July 12, 1910 (the south-facing front and the east wing of the current grammar school).

With the beginning of the First World War in 1914, the ground floor of the building became a reserve hospital for wounded soldiers. During the war years, the hospital was expanded so that the upper classes had to be outsourced to the Waldeck School. This use meant that the famous surgeon Ferdinand Sauerbruch tried out his arm prostheses in a classroom .

After the war, the school was converted into a secondary school in Singen, where students could also take their Abitur : In 1927, the first graduation ceremony for high school graduates took place.

During the National Socialist era , the Oberrealschule became the Langemarck Realgymnasium. The naming after this battle site of the 1st World War in 1934 was "one of the earliest names of a school in the era of National Socialism". The new National Socialist ideology soon became noticeable: girls were forced out of higher education and in 1937 the school became largely a “high school for boys”. Jewish students were initially discriminated against and then very soon had to leave school. As the last Jewish student, Heinz Heilbronn from Gailingen was able to take the matriculation examination in March 1938 “despite all the difficulties”. A stumbling block in front of the main entrance reminds of his fate.

The Catholic Church faced numerous restrictions. In a letter dated March 14, 1941, for example, the Baden minister of culture and education withdrew the authority to give religious instruction to the parish priest August Ruf , after whom the street leading from Singen train station to the Hegau grammar school is named today. During the Second World War , classes were only partially held, and the school then closed in 1944.

Stamped graffiti from the time the building was occupied by the French military in 1945/46 - to the left of the entrance door. You can recognize the name DEGAULLE and a “Croix de Lorraine” next to a hammer and sickle .

After the end of the war, the French Gouvernement militaire granted permission to resume classes on November 26, 1945, which, however, was held in the Zeppelin Realschule. The actual school building was still confiscated by the French and served as a military hospital and barracks, the French occupation troops did not vacate the school building until February 25, 1946. Some punched graffiti in the yellow tiles to the right and left of the main entrance door testify to the presence of the 152. Infantry regiment, the so-called "Diables rouges", in the school building.

On November 25, 1948, the school became a grammar school and had more and more registrations. In 1963/64 the building had to be expanded to include a west and north wing, and yet it could hardly accommodate all of the students. In 1971/72 the grammar school was for a short time the largest school in the Freiburg Oberschulamtsviertel with 1,694 pupils. In 1972, because of this overcrowding, part of the pupils and teachers were transferred to the newly founded Friedrich-Wöhler-Gymnasium . The school, which had been called the Gerhart-Hauptmann- Gymnasium for a while by resolution of the Singen municipal council , was renamed the Hegau-Gymnasium in the year after the division. In 1980 the Reformed Upper School was introduced.

Gradually, the subject French developed into a focus of the school: In 1969/70 a branch for intensive French was introduced. Since the school year 1994/95 there has been a French-bilingual Abi-Bac branch at the school , which was made possible by the “Accord de Mulhouse” between France and Germany, which was concluded on May 31, 1994. In June 2003, the first five students passed this Franco-German double Abitur. Every year teachers from France take part in the Abi-Bac exams, which have taken place annually since then.

View of the modern north extension of the Hegau grammar school

On July 13, 2001, the centenary of a secondary school in Singen was celebrated with a ceremony. Already on the 3rd, 4th On July 6th and 6th, 2001, a “musical-scenic revue of the century” was performed, in which former mayor Friedhelm Möhrle participated.

The first years of the new millennium were dominated by the expansion of the grammar school into an all-day school: In 2006, a cafeteria was opened in the former caretaker's apartment. Finally, in autumn 2008, a spacious new extension with a library was inaugurated. In the same year, on June 6, it received a visit from the then Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier . In June 2012 the school's archive was handed over to the Singen City Archives. The results of the inspection of the archive and its classification in the city archive were presented on October 25, 2012.

In November 2019 the Hegau-Gymnasium celebrated "50 years of German-French education" and at the same time "25 years of French-bilingual AbiBac train" with a ceremony.

Headmaster (from 1955): Josef Götz (1955–1969), Karl Glunk (1969–1989), Hanns Rainer Butz (1989–2004), Andreas Uhlig (2004–2011), Kerstin Schuldt (since 2011)

Language sequence

The Hegau-Gymnasium is an eight-year general high school (G8). The language or profile sequence is:

  • 1st foreign language (from grade 5): English
  • 2. Foreign language (from grade 6): French, French bilingual, Latin
  • 3rd foreign language or profile subject (from grade 8): Spanish, science and technology , music, computer science-mathematics-physics (IMP)

Partnerships / student exchanges

In 1998 the Hegau-Gymnasium was named a partner school for Europe by the Ministry of Culture . The grammar school maintains contacts with several schools in Europe and overseas.

Honors

The Hegau-Gymnasium is called the partner school for Europe. In addition, it was included in the funding of the Comenius program in 2009 for the cooperation (theater project) with its partner school in the French overseas department of Réunion . In 2019, the school orchestra received the Lions Club Singen-Radolfzell's cultural promotion award.

Personalities

Known students

Well-known teachers

Others

Three stumbling blocks have been laid in front of the Hegau grammar school . They are reminiscent of the fate of Eugen and Isidor Löwinstein, two former Jewish students who fled to Palestine from the Nazi dictatorship in the mid-1930s , and of Heinz Heilbronn, who emigrated to Switzerland after graduating from high school.

literature

  • Klaus Rombach: School Reality in Singing - From Citizens' School to High School - The Higher School 1899-1945 - A Documentation , Hartung-Gorre Verlag, Konstanz 1992, ISBN 3-89191-596-9 .
  • Antje Märtin et al .: Jahr100buch anniversary publication Hegau-Gymnasium Singen , undated [2001], 330 pages. ( This book is not available in bookshops, it was sold in 2001 as part of the 100th anniversary celebrations )
  • Bernadette Egger, "Das Archiv des Hegau-Gymnasium", in: Singen Jahrbuch 2013 ( ISBN 978-3-933356-70-3 ), pp. 179–188.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rombach, p. 21
  2. ↑ Rombach, p. 27
  3. ↑ Rombach, p. 48
  4. ↑ Rombach, pp. 55-56
  5. ↑ Ferdinand Sauerbruch. That was my life , Kindler, 1950
  6. ↑ Rombach, p. 148
  7. ↑ Rombach, pp. 118-19
  8. ↑ Märtin . S. 13 .
  9. ↑ Rombach, p. 224
  10. ↑ The letter is in the Singen City Archives. The entry stamp of the "Langemarck-Gymnasium" is dated March 29, 1941
  11. ↑ a b Märtin, p. 13
  12. ↑ Rombach, p. 236
  13. ↑ Rombach, p. 237
  14. ↑ Read the text of the agreement in French (accessed on March 5, 2012).
  15. ^ Südkurier article from June 30, 2003 in the local Singen edition
  16. ↑ Susanne Gehrmann-Röhm: Entering a new era with great professionalism . Südkurier , local edition Singen, May 7, 2008 (accessed March 19, 2012).
  17. ↑ City invests in education . Südkurier , local edition Singen, November 7, 2008 (accessed on March 19, 2012).
  18. ↑ See the report about it in the Singener Wochenblatt of October 31, 2012, p. 3 as well as the article in the Südkurier on November 3, 2012 http://www.suedkurier.de/region/kreis-konstanz/singen/Ein-Stueck-Geschichte ; art372458,5754717 , accessed November 3, 2012
  19. ^ Profiles at the Hegau-Gymnasium on the Hegau-Gymnasium website , accessed on December 7, 2015.
  20. ↑ Singen: A Europe-wide theater project Südkurier, March 28, 2011 (accessed on March 7, 2012).